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This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In." * * * Mygale MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . . A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambiguous, even sadomasochistic relationship develops between self-appointed executioner and victim. Swift and spare, suspenseful and thought-provoking, Mygale puts the gothic spirit back in the noir canon while introducing unique twists on notions of desire, identity, lost and restitution. "Great art in nightmarish darkness."--Michel Lebrun "'Ingenious, ' 'elegant, ' 'sinister' these are also adjectives that approximate, but fall short of, the narrative power of Mygale . Much like Poe's 'tales of terror, ' Mygale is a story that invites both respect and repulsion." -- Washington Post Book World "More Jim Thompson than Raymond Chandler, Jonquet's prose is rough hewn, the panache is all in Mygale 's bizarre setup, gruesome scenarios and gender bending ending." -- St. Petersberg Times "Watch your skin crawl with this slim French tickler . . ." -- East Bay Express " T]his short novel embraces sexual horror with relish; it feels at times like being pulled on a leash through a Bosch painting with the Marquis de Sade leering from the wings." - Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian " Mygale . . . is, appropriately enough, a spider web of a book, the different threads spun out until it all come